This is the web site to commemorate my maternal grandfather "JACK".
http://www.censol.ca/research/worldwarone/
I only met him once or twice when I was a young lad, I think last time was in 1956 so I would have only been 4 years old. I don't remember much prior to that age.
Grandfather Kennedy died around 1956 from his Great War injuries, gas I had heard, leading to TB. As I read more of his history (details now on his web site) I began to question the "facts" that had been passed down in history. I had been told he suffered seriously from the gas he experienced with the PPCLI at Bellewaerde Ridge, but I did not see any evidence of that in his service records. More specifically, he was a Prisoner of War for the last year of the war (1918)and there is no mention of his suffering.
Like my paternal grandfather (see other listing) Grandfather Kennedy joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, but later (after his first medical problems) took an officers posting with the British Expeditionary Force, specifically with the Royal Irish Rifles. The exploits of his capture and his last year as a prisoner are all detailed on his web site.
Putting all of this information together was enhanced with the help of the members of the Great War Forum and the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group. If you are researching a relative in the Great War, you will want to visit those sites.
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